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Pithecellobium hymenaeafolium

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow) Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Panama
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest clearing
• riverside
• coastal
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jul
• Oct

Shrub, tree or climber with sharp recurved thorns to 8mm long. Paired glabrous coriaceous leaflets to 130mm x 50mm. Axillary racemes or spikes to 120mm long with bractlets to 1mm long, puberulent white flowers fragrant at night, calyx 2.5mm long, corolla 12mm long. Tomentose falcate bright red pods 100mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF
• ILDIS
• Gleason & Moldenke